Skip the money, I do too. To call AFK either means you have never had a server/connection problem. Today I had to TRY to re-enter on four games nine times. Does that make me AFK? And when I get back in, the time lag is 9/10 a death sentence.

Skip the money, I do too. To call AFK either means you have never had a server/connection problem. Today I had to TRY to re-enter on four games nine times. Does that make me AFK? And when I get back in, the time lag is 9/10 a death sentence.

That's fine. If you have a connection problem but can't load into a battle, than you have a connection issue. That's on your end. But if you can't load, for what ever reason, why should battles, Random, Rank, etc. have to bear your problem? WG can and should be able to fix this issue even if they have to substitute with a BoT. Now, on your end, once you log back in, or are able to go back into the queue, then so be it. You go back into the queue, for the next battle. No harm, no foul.

We are not living in a technological age where replacements of players who are AFK can not be replaced.

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Have you SEEN WG's AI? I'd much rather have the AFK be stationary and do nothing than have to deal with the stupidity of WG's AI programing...

Have you SEEN some players? Good gracious, I'd rather have WG's AI than their stupidity. Sadly, I've seen many human players who are worse than the bots. The idea that the human player is always better than a bot is a myth.

You mean a bot that is extremely suicidal and will die in the opening moments of a battle because it literally only sails in a straight line? Or a bot that has 0 disregard for other players and will actively TK, and then you cant even report them for it?

No, I'd much rather have players being that stupid, because then I can at least report them to WG or add them to a blacklist or whatever. WG's bots are not something I want to see in randoms...

You mean a bot that is extremely suicidal and will die in the opening moments of a battle because it literally only sails in a straight line? Or a bot that has 0 disregard for other players and will actively TK, and then you cant even report them for it?

No, I'd much rather have players being that stupid, because then I can at least report them to WG or add them to a blacklist or whatever. WG's bots are not something I want to see in randoms...

It's good to see you have no issues with players being AFK, no matter what the battle scenario is. Rank, Random, etc. From what it sounds like, as you have described, a player who is AFK, or even a BoT, will make no difference in the out-come of the game.

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Afk problem can be fixed. You penalize players who do it frequently, including those inactive for periods of three minutes or longer. 99% of issues players blame WG about are actually the player's fault (ram modules going bad, motherboard failing, HD failing, background programs, video card issues, ancient PC, crap internet provider, etc.).

You shouldn't take longer than 3 minutes to load back in, hell shouldn't take two minutes. If your broke behind can't buy an SSD, that's not our fault.

AFK once out of 50 or so games, no problem. But if you're going absent for three plus minutes more than three times in 50 games, it's time to disable random mode temporarily. And each additional AFK extends the timer penalty.

You'll still get afk players but everyone can have peace of mind knowing that they aren't habitual afk'rs. And that is what frustrates people the most, thinking the afk person does it often.

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Have you SEEN some players? Good gracious, I'd rather have WG's AI than their stupidity. Sadly, I've seen many human players who are worse than the bots. The idea that the human player is always better than a bot is a myth.

We all make jokes like this but the reality is bots are absolutely terrible and replacing AFKs with them would simply further disadvantage the team with the AFK. An AFK player at least denies the enemy points and might return to the battle at some point. A bot will just rush in and die in the opening minutes.

It's good to see you have no issues with players being AFK, no matter what the battle scenario is. Rank, Random, etc. From what it sounds like, as you have described, a player who is AFK, or even a BoT, will make no difference in the out-come of the game.

A bot in a battleship will be meaningless to the match except as a distraction. Any other class will impact the outcome of the game by sticking torpedoes into friendly ships because teammates don't exist to a bot.